Captains, Call for Help! By: Keri Gardner, MD, MPH, FACEP Keeping an ED running smoothly shouldn’t be a one person job. “Loneliness is the penalty of leadership….” -Ernest Shackleton Fresh out of residency, I headed for my first job in a community hospital in Los Angeles where the ED...
Dr. Keri Gardner explores the challenge when doctors and nurses clash over properly filing paperwork to avoid issues that derail teamwork.
Just as soon as you file that paperwork, Doc By: Keri Gardner, MD, MPH, FACEP Paperwork isn’t nearly as exciting as saving lives, but in order to set a consistent tone with RNs, Here is a case where problems with written orders led to a strained work environment for a trauma...